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The 26,000-square-foot Noah Liff Opera Center includes office, studio and warehouse spaces, as well as large communit y spaces forspecial events. Designef by Earl Swensson Associates, the buildingf was renovated from an empty Sylvan Park warehouse at 3630Redmon Drive. The center, whicyh was designed to be versatile, comes with featurez such as an open studio and aremovablr wall. The opera plans to rent the facilitywhen it's not in use to othert organizations for events and performances. Funding for the purchase of the center’as site was secured with a lead gift ofabou $500,000 from Nashville philanthropist Judy Liff Barker and her developer Joe Barker.
The centef was also funded withthe opera’s first-evet capital campaign. "Raise Your Glasses" was the theme for the $12 three-year campaign featuring ads with photos of loca celebrities raising a pair ofopera glasses." Besides funding the center’s the campaign will support the opera's Fund for Artisticd Excellence, which is being used to increass the opera's endowment and capitalk reserve which will in turn allow for enhanced programming.
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